I have to read an UTF-8 encoded file with accentuated chars.<div><br></div><div>if i do :</div><div><br></div><div><div>#! /usr/local/bin/macruby</div><div># encoding: utf-8</div><div><br></div><div>SIGNATURES_FILE = &quot;/Users/yt/dev/Signature/signatures.txt&quot;</div>
<div>  open(SIGNATURES_FILE) do |file|</div><div>    file.each do |line|</div><div>      puts line</div><div>    end</div><div>  end</div><div><br></div><div>i get the correct characters on the Terminal, ie. :</div><div><br>
</div><div>...</div><div><div>-- </div><div>« Pour ceux qui vont chercher midi à quatorze heures, </div><div>la minute de vérité risque de se faire longtemps attendre. » </div><div>(Pierre Dac)</div><div><br></div><div><br>
</div><div>however when doing (with or without the .force_encoding(&quot;UTF-8&quot; and , &quot;r:UTF-8&quot;) :</div><div><br></div><div><div>  t = &quot;&quot;.force_encoding(&quot;UTF-8&quot;)</div><div>  open(SIGNATURES_FILE, &quot;r:UTF-8&quot;) do |file|</div>
<div>     file.each do |line|</div><div>      t += line.force_encoding(&quot;UTF-8&quot;)</div><div>    end</div><div>  end</div><div>puts t</div><div><br></div><div>i get wrong chars :</div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div>
-- </div><div><div>« Pour ceux qui vont chercher midi à  quatorze heures, </div><div>la minute de vérité risque de se faire longtemps attendre. » </div><div>(Pierre Dac)</div><div><br></div><div>the only difference is that i make use of a String t = &quot;&quot;</div>
<div><br></div><div>what did i missunderstood ?</div></div></div></div></div>